Daily Tech News 6 November 2024

• The Verge is going through the five stages of election grief. (The Verge)
  
  Denial.
  Bargaining.
  Blaming crypto.
  Calling for censorship.
  Going home early and getting drunk.
  
  
  
• Slashdot just posted Trump's win and left its commenters to melt down.


Smart. Efficient.

• If you want a PCIe 5.0 SSD that has high transfer rates and is reasonably cheap, the Corsair MP700 Elite is that. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Pretty much.
  
  
  
• A Samsung 990 Pro is cheaper, better in other respects, and would probably not be noticeably slower. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The Samsung drive has a top speed of 7.5GBps vs. 10GBps for the Corsair model, but it's priced at $149 for 2TB compared to $249.
  
  I know which I would choose.
  
  
  
• Hacking 700 million Electronic Arts accounts. (BattleDash)
  
  Ethically.
  
  No, really.
  
  
  
• Hundreds of code libraries on NPM try to install malicious code on your computer. (Ars Technica)
  
  Not as malicious as NPM itself, but still...
  
  
  
• The Ampere One A192-32X is a 192 core 3.2GHz Arm-based server CPU. (Serve the Home)
  
  I love this line:

  The AmpereOne A192-32X is important to keep in context. It is a 192-core 3.2GHz (hence A192-32X) part, which seems mundane by 2024 standards.

  Pfft. 192 cores? Hardly worth getting out of bed.
  
  
  
• Sundar Pichai has told Google staff to take their political opinions, fold them until they are all sharp corners, and shove them up their Slack channels. (Yahoo)
  
  Nature is healing.
  
  
  
• Mozilla (the company behind the Firefox browser) has laid off 30% of its staff and closed down its advocacy division. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Nature is fucking healing. Trump gets results.
  
  
  
• A ransomware crew that hacked Schneider Electric has demanded payment of $125,000. (The Register)
  
  Paid in baguettes.
  
  No, really.
  
  
  

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